Heidi Hudson was an External Associate at PRIO until 2017.
Heidi Hudson is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Hudson's current research interests concentrate on discursive and material gender deficits of liberal peacebuilding in the postcolony. Over the years she has contributed several chapters in books and has published numerous articles in, amongst others, International Peacekeeping, Security Dialogue, Security Studies, Politikon, Agenda, Strategic Review for Southern Africa and African Security Review. She is co-editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics. Heidi Hudson is past president of the South African Political Studies Association, and since 2012 she has been an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Heidi has held several fellowships, such as Fulbright, as well as at the Nordic Africa Institute and the University of Calgary, Canada and serves on the editorial board of International Peacekeeping, Politikon, Africa Insight and the Journal of African Union Studies. She is co-editor and co-author of Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa: Concepts, role-players, policy and practice (University of Cape Town Press, 2013), with Theo Neethling. Heidi holds a doctorate in Strategic Studies from the University of the Free State. She was a PRIO Global Fellow from 2014 - 31 January 2017.
Book Chapter in Africa in Global International Relations: Emerging approaches to theory and practice
Book Chapter in The Politics of International Intervention: the Tyranny of Peace
Journal Article in Politics & Gender
Book Chapter in Handbook of International Security and Development
Book Chapter in Treading the waters of history: Perspectives on the ANC
Journal Article in Africa Insight
Journal Article in Africa Insight
The lead story in this issue of the GPS Update is an interview with Julieta Lemaitre, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and PRIO Global Fellow, about a project studying the political and legal mobilisation of women’s organisations in Colombia. In this issue you can also read about another PRIO Global Fellow, Heidi Hudson, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, who visited PRIO during the first week of June. As usual, the GPS Update also gives you an update on relevant seminars, reports and policy briefs, as well as a list of publications which might be of interest to our readership.
Heidi Hudson is visiting PRIO this week. She is a PRIO Global Fellow, and works in collaboration with the Gender Research Group. She has also given a lecture at the Research Network on Gender, Peace and Security.
Heidi Hudson is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. She was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014.
The first 2014 issue of the GPS Update features a report from a seminar at PRIO with Betty Bigombe, former chief mediator in the conflict between the Lord's resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Uganda.